NYC planning $2 million deer vasectomy program

[Batman]

There's humane, and then there's stupid.
New York mayor Bill DeBlasio is planning to launch a $2 million program this fall to round up an exploding deer population on Staten Island and give them all vasectomies.

Plan to give deer vasectomies will result in ‘sex-crazed beasts’ | New York Post

 

[Riptide]

They could just ship all those sex-crazed does to Wisconsin, and everybody's happy.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The deer may end up eating the bag of frozen peas.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Give me a few minutes to pack my bow and I'll hit the road.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Venison Christmas at the homeless shelters > Old deer firing blanks

 

[Neutral Corner]

Give me a few minutes to pack my bow and I'll hit the road.

I was going to say something similar. Open it to bowhunters. They won't go blam-blamming around the woods shooting houses hundreds of yards away, and they can take a lot of deer. They have used them here on a state park that is in municipal Birmingham. The park was getting overbrowsed and neighboring houses were having their flowerbeds stripped. Put out a couple of hundred deer tags and give them a ten day season, let them take does too, problem controlled.

Of course, all the SJW's in New York will have a ****fit over killing Bambi. I don't know how you deal with that nonsense.

 

[Machine Head]

Cull the herd. There are ways:

Three Rivers plans to cull deer herd

 

[User 1019]

Cull the herd. There are ways:

Three Rivers plans to cull deer herd

I figured that was Dan Rooney's plan for next season.

 

[cranberry]

Venison Christmas at the homeless shelters > Old deer firing blanks

I've always wondered if there's a good way to make this happen, but being from Staten Island I don't think allowing deer hunting there is the answer. I do know that deer overpopulation is a huge issue around the area.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I don't know why, but the mental imagery of the deer swimming over from New Jersey to impregnate the does, and the program having the exact opposite effect that is intended, had us laughing.

 

[Machine Head]

I've always wondered if there's a good way to make this happen, but being from Staten Island I don't think allowing deer hunting there is the answer. I do know that deer overpopulation is a huge issue around the area.

There are ways.

Sharpshooters and bow hunters. From the above link detailing the bow hunting plan in the Twin Cities a few years back:

Elite archers

However, many smaller parks also need deer control every few years. In some of those cases, the Metro Bowhunters Resource Base is called into action because they are skilled at taking deer in park spaces that may be near homes and roads.

It's a volunteer group of specially trained archers who have conducted hunts in nearly all of the metropolitan counties.


"Our mission is to control the deer populations in those more closely urban smaller areas," said Dan Christensen, who is on the group's board.

In the Three Rivers system, plans call for the bowhunters group to hunt in Lake Minnetonka Regional Park, Noerenberg Garden and Gale Woods Farm special recreation areas, Fish Lake Regional Park, Spring Lake Regional Park in Scott County, and along the district's regional trail corridors in Maple Grove and Brooklyn Park.

Most dates and other details have not been decided, pending discussions between park district managers, bowhunters and neighboring communities.

Christensen said the archers must provide proof of their competence annually and have taken a state certification course. During hunts, he said, they take special precautions.

"Typically we require that our hunters be in elevated stands so that arrows are always being directed to ground level," Christensen said. "We also require that all of our hunters only take shots at broadside standing deer within a 20-yard range radius, so we don't have people launching arrows that are going to be possibly bad hits."

The NYC plan reads like something from the Onion.

 

[Dyno]

Of course, as Antonio Cromartie can attest, vasectomies don't always work.

Following a vasectomy, Antonio Cromartie and his wife have twins

 

[JackReacher]

That's a horrifying thought considering the past three months of my life.

 

[User 4332]

While I'm all for controlled urban hunting of deer, trap-neuter-release programs work to help manage populations of other nuisance animals that people don't have the heart to kill, such as cats.

 

[Machine Head]

The NYC program won't solve their problem.

From the link in the first post:

“This proposal has no chance of success whatsoever,” said Dr. Paul Curtis, a Cornell University deer expert.

The details can be found in the article.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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